TELEGRAM TO THE VYKSA WORKERS[1]

Written:Written on May 31, 1918Published:First published in part on June 2, 1918, inIzvestiaNo. 111.

      Published in full in 1931 inLenin Miscellany XVIII.

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VedernikovVyksaKulebaki, Kazan-Moscow Railway

Ivery much hope that the worker comrades of Vyksa,
in carrying out their excellent plan of a mass movement
with, machine-guns to obtain grain, will act as genuine
revolutionaries, that is, they will staff the detachment
with selected reliable people who will not behave like
robbers, and who will work to the schedules and in full
agreement with Tsyurupa for the common cause of saving from
famine all the starving people, and not merely for
themselves.

[1]Leninsent this telegram to the Vyksa workers in reply to one
received from them which stated that they were “absolutely
starving”, and were going out by steamboats with their
detachments and machine-guns in order to obtain grain by force.